A Russian Village Club

The following are the rules of a club in a small Russian town in the Tchernizoff district: 1. It is prohibited to enter the club'with greased boots. 2. Tradesmen are not allowed to cuter the club in their working clothes, which exhale the disagreeable odor of üsh, grease or leather. 3. A dress coat must be worn at all New Year's or Easter dances. Any one appearing in a velvet waistcoat or a green necktie is flned 1 ruble. The unes cover the expenses for the band. 4. The members are especially requested not to use the window curtains as pocket handkerohiefs. Offenders of this sort will be expelled from the club. 5. During dances members smoking in the ladies' room will be flned 25 copecks, the fines to be expended in toilet powüer and eau de cologne lor the ladies. 6. During the quadrilles flirting is prohibited, and no one is allowed to step over the borders of decency. 7. It is strictly prohibited to get indecenUy drunk, as lias happened before now. 8. It is prohibited to strike a partner in the face. 9. In case of disarreement at billiarus it is strictly